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ISBN 1-871344-06-9     Price: UK £5.95     International £6.95

Category: Leicestershire Local History

Key Subjects:
Richard III
Battlefields
Bosworth
Henry VII
Tudor England
Plantagenets

Peter Foss:
THE FIELD OF REDEMORE:
The Battle of Bosworth, 1485, second edition
A comprehensive re-assesment of the evidence for the site of the Battle of Bosworth

Publication date 1998
Size 80 pages, 148 x 210mm
10 illustrations, 4 maps
format PB

A ground-breaking re-assessment of the site of the battle of Bosworth. First published by Rosalba Press in 1990, this 1998 edition brings to life the evidence for rejecting the traditional plan of the battle, in which all the action was thought to take place around Ambion Hill, moving the site onto a flat, formerly marshy area of Dadlington Parish, several miles to the south-west. With English Heritage now spearheading a major field study of the whole area, not least because of the debate sparked by this book, here is a detailed and authoritative opportunity to review the evidence for yourself.

“The best analysis of the debate on the battlefield's location.”
Richard Holmes, War Walks (1997, BBC Books)

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Contents

Chapter One – Chroniclers and Poets: The Problem of the Sources

Chapter Two – Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Antiquarian Interpretations

Chapter Three – Hill, Plain and Marsh: The Topography of a Battle

Chapter Four – The Battle of Bosworth: a New Interpretation

Notes

Select Bibliography

Appendix One: The Archaeological Problem

Appendix Two: The Hinckley-Lyre Agreement (1283)

Index

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